@TonyStark “The bravado and self-righteous rage is designed to deflect the conversation away from real solutions. American lawmakers appear incapable of loosening the chokehold that the gun lobby maintains on the GOP, preferring to pacify loyalists and gun nuts.” #gopkills 🎯

From @pivoinebleue here......see her post and boost...but wanted to add:

WHO is "pro life" again??????

Gov Walz (D) giving free meals to kids in Minnesota....meanwhile Gov Huckabeast (R) revokes child labor law protections.

Kids Embrace Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz After He Signs Free School Meals Into Law

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minnesota-tim-walz-free-school-lunch_n_6415eb61e4b01ea5cd8e7071?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&t=FFjO4ZFXqC3hLXyi4xSPyw&s=09

>Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed the bill into law Friday to cheers and hugs from some of the kids who will benefit from the program.

#GQPHypocrisy #GOPKills

@strong_sue @SteveRogers @AgentCarter_SSR @TonyStark Another sad fact, proving that intentional "Republican" mis- & disinformation killed "GOP's" own voter, solely for power gains.
For this horrible indifference to human life alone, "Republican" officials should be forever barred from ever holding public offices again.

#SaveLives #HumanityMatters #BanTheGOP #GOPKills #AmericaDeservesBetter

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/climate/exxon-mobil-global-warming-climate-change.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #clmatecrisis #exxon #GOPKills

Too much of the media is owned by wealthy people who use it to control the discourse and shape it in ways that benefit themselves. Should media be a capitalist enterprise if it is an integral part of ensuring the life of our democracy?!

Opinion | The Corporate Media's Commitment to 'Both Sides' Coverage Is Dangerous | Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-media-both-sides

#Journalism
#BothSidesism
#GOPKills
#GOPGreed
#GreedKills
#MediaByAnd4TheRich

"You know what would actually benefit politics in the United States? A media system that was willing to point out who was causing demonstrable problems, rather than pretending that "both sides" are always to blame.

The Washington Post (12/16/22) had a recent headline: “Can Politics Kill You? Research Says the Answer Increasingly Is Yes.” And the lead of the article, by Akilah Johnson, told readers of two studies that reveal what it calls “an uncomfortable truth”:

The toxicity of partisan politics is fueling an overall increase in mortality rates for working-age Americans.
But when you read further into the article, you find that politics is not really the problem here. One of the studies, the Post reported, found that “people living in more conservative parts of the United States disproportionately bore the burden of illness and death linked to Covid-19.” The other found that “the more conservative a state’s policies, the shorter the lives of working-age people.”

So the problem is not so much “politics” as it is conservatism. Indeed, the article noted that one of the reports found “if all states implemented liberal policies” on the environment, guns, tobacco, and other health-related policies, 170,000 lives would be saved a year.

Still, the analysis in the piece centered around the idea that it is not right-wing ideology, but lack of bipartisanship, that is to blame—as in, “The division in American politics has grown increasingly caustic and polarized.”

You know what would actually benefit politics in the United States? A media system that was willing to point out who was causing demonstrable problems, rather than pretending that “both sides” are always to blame.

Reporting like that could actually save lives."

No! I am shocked! Shocked, I say!

#GOPLies #GOPKills

Fla. surgeon general used ‘flawed’ vaccine science, faculty peers say
https://wapo.st/3X19T1X